Should cars be banned for 45 minutes each morning?

[Return of the Rev]

What about a total car ban in our city between 7.45 and 8.30 every weekday morning,this could leave roads free for all cyclist to travel to school and work.
Might make a huge impact on obesity in our society and cut down car trips.Also we could have a 3.15pm to 4.00pm ban for homeward journeys.

 

[Titus]

Crazy. Who started this thread? Oh, that explains it.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Make it so. I've never once cycled down Stanford Avenue at an obscene speed without fear of some car coming out of a side street and splatting me.

 

[Return of the Rev]

crazy. Who started this thread? Oh, that explains it.

vulnerable attack alert

 

[junior]

I start work at 8am every day. Could you give me some suggestions as to how I should get to work?

 

[Return of the Rev]

i start work at 8am every day. Could you give me some suggestions as to how i should get to work?

you would arrive at 7.45 by car

 

[magoo]

Fine by me, I'm gone by 6.45.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I start work at 8am every day. Could you give me some suggestions as to how I should get to work?

 

[El Sid]

I start work at 8am every day. Could you give me some suggestions as to how I should get to work?

Start early

 

[somerset]

this is a good suggestion, though I liked the idea in France whereby lorries over a certain size were banned from certain roads and motorways during weekends....... resultng in fewer jams, and fewer accidents during those periods...... leaving a free run for 'civilians' trying to enjoy themselves in their free time.

 

[junior]

Start early

So if I add 15mins on to every day between now and when I retire in about 30 years, how much of my life do you think i'll have wasted/worked for free?

I also have a 84 mile round trip commute with 2 dogs. The majority of it country lanes and some of it motorway (A1M), so I think that rules out a bicycle.

 

[junior]

this is a good suggestion, though I liked the idea in France whereby lorries over a certain size were banned from certain roads and motorways during weekends....... resultng in fewer jams, and fewer accidents during those periods...... leaving a free run for 'civilians' trying to enjoy themselves in their free time.

I like that idea. Lorry's are only second to motorbikes as the scum of the road and the biggest problem with the british road network.

 

[Return of the Rev]

so if i add 15mins on to every day between now and when i retire in about 30 years, how much of my life do you think i'll have wasted/worked for free?

I also have a 84 mile round trip commute with 2 dogs. The majority of it country lanes and some of it motorway (a1m), so i think that rules out a bicycle.

so you arrive within 15 minutes of starting your shift,could move nearer,so does a ban on traffic in the city of brighton and hove really affect you,or are you another non resident interfering in our great city?

 

[cardboard]

What happens if you started your journey at 6 and get stuck in traffic 10 miles from you destination at 7.45?
What happens? Just pull over and read the paper?
Crazy

 

[El Sid]

So if I add 15mins on to every day between now and when I retire in about 30 years, how much of my life do you think i'll have wasted/worked for free?

I also have a 84 mile round trip commute with 2 dogs. The majority of it country lanes and some of it motorway (A1M), so I think that rules out a bicycle.

I suppose you could take the dogs for a 15 minute walk.
But as you don't actually live in Brighton you don't have a problem.

 

[somerset]

I like that idea. Lorry's are only second to motorbikes as the scum of the road and the biggest problem with the british road network.

I cant agree with you on bikes.....

 

[Stat Brother]

Such drastic measures would be the only way to make people realise just how pointless most of their car journeys are.
But it being drastic means it will never happen.

What about blue badge holders?
What about the effect of tax revenue, from the pumps?

 

[The Large One]

Make it so. I've never once cycled down Stanford Avenue at an obscene speed without fear of some car coming out of a side street and splatting me.

Or me crossing the road trying to play 'bicycle rugby'.

 

[Return of the Rev]

what happens if you started your journey at 6 and get stuck in traffic 10 miles from you destination at 7.45?
What happens? Just pull over and read the paper?
Crazy

The ban would be within the city so you should be able to get closer that 10 miles from your work station,and yes wait outside the city boundary and adjust your departure on future journeys.

 

[Return of the Rev]

What about blue badge holders?
What about the effect of tax revenue, from the pumps?

BLUE BADGE HOLDERS CAN ADJUST LIKE THE REST OF US AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT PETROL SALES I THINK ITS A GROWTH MARKET